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China set to launch new mission to space station

China is slated to send another crew to its Tiangong space station on Thursday, in the latest mission for a growing space programme that plans to send people to the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-17 is scheduled to blast off from the Jiuquan launch site in arid northwest China at 11:14 am (0314 GMT), carrying a three-astronaut team with the youngest average age since the space station’s construction. A send-off ceremony on Thursday morning saw […]